February 3, 2006—The Building and Owners and Managers Institute (BOMI) recently renewed its Cornerstone Partnership with a pledge of $50,000 to support the activities of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International.
BOMI is a nonprofit institute dedicated to educating professionals who operate, manage, and maintain properties and facilities. BOMA is an international federation with a mission to enhance the human, intellectual, and physical assets of the commercial real estate industry through advocacy, education, research, standards, and information.
BOMI’s Cornerstone Partners is the highest level of investment an organization can make in supporting BOMA’s vital programs in advocacy, education, research, and membership. BOMA International’s partnership program allows companies to invest in their own success and vitality, as well as that of the industry. With three levels of partnership (Cornerstone Partner, $50,000; Leadership Circle, $25,000; and Supporting Partner, $10,000) the program has benefited industry organizations that offer a wide range of services to commercial real estate professionals.
“BOMI and BOMA have teamed together on a variety of projects for as long as we’ve each been in existence,” says BOMI’s chairman David W. Hewett. “Partners like BOMI provide all of us with the kind of synergy that our members deserve in today’s fast paced and competitive environment, and seeing this level of commitment from BOMI demonstrates that they recognize that fact as clearly as we do.”
BOMI Institute Chairman Dennis Adams says, “Our Cornerstone partnership marks our commitment to designing education that meets member and association needs for today and tomorrow. The Cornerstone Partnership serves our shared audience: the commercial property and facilities professionals.”
In 2006 BOMI International and the BOMI Institute are collaborating to deliver a series of live seminars, Webcasts, and online courses for real estate professionals. The two organizations share a full-time instructional designer as part of the new initiative. The two organizations will jointly develop four 6-hour live seminars, taught in a traditional classroom format, and four live Webcast seminars. Online courses, or seminars, will round out the new educational offerings from the BOMA/BOMI collaboration.
